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michaelmrose··on Young adults are poor despite every metric which suggests otherwise
This means that when marriages implode women are the ones that call in the accident after the car has already crashed rolled over and caught fire. It tells you nothing about what killed the marriage
michaelmrose··on LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent
Linux users think of a driver as the thing that makes my silently hardware do the existing things its supposed to do like every other item in its class.

Windows users think of the driver as what makes the hardware do what everything in its class does but subtly different and somehow glued to a command center with its own unique and bad GUI auto started, in the tray, with its own update schedule, and ads.

michaelmrose··on AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
No you don't
michaelmrose··on AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
Cable bills are extremely complicated on purpose and people are taxed for time attention and intelligence.

The employees and company have an obligation not to exploit this even if the issue is only discovered after the fact.

You don't get to export any of the responsibility to your customer. They don't prepare the bill and it's not their job to find your fuck ups

michaelmrose··on AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
The way you describe requires somehow counting every bit but somehow discarding most which is obviously nonsense.

This seems statistically invalid insofar as it will tend to overbill potentially by a lot on the minority of cases.

Don't you know how much of the pipe is occupied by a given customers code at any given time or what data is being sent

michaelmrose··on AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
Reminds me of working for a cable company and being told that even if we screwed up and stole from the customer the look back period was only a few months and if we found an error from before that we weren't supposed to correct it.
michaelmrose··on OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe
Signed sealed and delivered?
michaelmrose··on Grok Build is open source
They could use other people's models running on their hardware while renting most of the existing capacity to others. The real issue is that their leadership is delusional and their stock is literally based on this shared delusion and acknowledging reality would gut their ability to raise new funds and destroy paper wealth based on delusional returns that are never going to happen.
michaelmrose··on America pays workers just 27% of what its wealth allows – the worst in the OECD
235 last year down from 336 the year prior.

https://k12ssdb.org/all-shootings#:~:text=NUMBER%20OF%20SHOO...

One could suspect that the number in the next decade should be between 2000-3000 incidents. Since 2000 is a bigger number than 1 yes more than once a decade.

Mass shootings more broadly are even worse with 167 in Jan-June 2026.

michaelmrose··on Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK
This was with a nvidia 4070 attached to a 500 hz monitor. Even so P95 difference between worst and best was closes to 5ms. Meanwhile 60 hz monitors are incredibly common and every time a 16.7 ms frame deadline it causes an additional 16 ms of latency worse this is inconsistent and spiky and will be noticeable.

The length of a blink is irrelevant. People notice latency especially inconsistent latency. The perception of xwayland being laggy in latency sensitive context like gaming is accurate.

michaelmrose··on Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK
People were declaring it ready in 2016 10 years ago and talking about how people needed to switch off the working "obsolete" X and switch ASAP to the broken wayland.

It is completely counterfactual that "pretty much no one" was recommending it in 2021

michaelmrose··on Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK
I think Linux is about choice some folks opinions notwithstanding. It's an ecosystem where many different devs have chosen to go about the same thing many different ways. You the user then get to pick from amongst those varied and interesting choices.

It however isn't about all or indeed any of those devs being obligated to support any particular choice. You can only buy a place at the table with money or sweat and merely using something isn't contributing and doesn't get you a vote.

Arguably the problem isn't the display server its the fact that general linux usage tends to require a little understanding of what's going on under the hood than is strictly speaking desirable for joe average user especially when something doesn't work. EG needing to understand that your choice of display server is making your zoom calls not work and then having to open that whole can of worms.

The fix is honestly more labor. The trivial way to acquire more labor is with money which is hampered by the fact that so little is paid. If you want more polished stuff pay more.

michaelmrose··on Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK
No. Wayland has been in development for 17 years. People have been claiming its been ready for prime time when it wasn't for a surprising portion of that time while it had substantial deficiencies while the boring old shit continued to work fine.

It has been ready for users whose sole usage is an editor a terminal and a browser on their single screen intel laptop as long as they didn't also open youtube since 2015.

Imagine the boss's nephew joins the firm. He knows less than nothing and is worse than useless everything he touches turns to shit. People understandably complain. After 10 years of development and other people's time he is now moderately capable at his job. People still bitch. They aren't lying or wrong. They just aren't current.

michaelmrose··on Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK
It's very valuable data that everything is so close. It means that most folks can simply ignore it. On the other hand the inferior nature of xwayland well explains the bad rep for wayland latency.

Consider also that people neither run the latest thing nor the fastest software and remember potholes long after they are filled. EG it wasn't that long ago that wine was running on xwayland almost exclusively for instance and the majority of popular titles run via wine.

michaelmrose··on Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK
Many flatpaks aren't actually maintained by the actual developer nor the normal way the package is normally used. You may have bugs that aren't present in the package that the dev isn't aware of or interested in fixing especially if they support a different channel and the bug relates to sandboxing.

There is also a risk that the person may be malicious from the start, sell out, or simply get malware. Given the nature of the ecosystem a malicious release to a previously safe package could propagate incredibly quickly.

Where there are multiple steps for a package to get from developers machine to yours and each is slow enough for malicious behavior to be noticed each step adds friction and decreases the chance of ultimate success. Where all steps are nearly simultaneous your risk multiplies with each step in which a different person has their hands in it and if any of them are malicious or compromised you are screwed.

michaelmrose··on Why it's so difficult to produce American-made medical gloves
Let's party like its 2009 We're dealing with the aftermath of the morgage crisis due in no small part to the legal and regulatory environment of 2001-2007 under George Bush. We are also dealing with the swine flu pandemic which is what actually depletes our strategic supplies in the first place.

By Mid 2010 we pass with great contention and argument both Dodd Frank and the ACA. By August we could finally declare the swine flu pandemic over and congress is worrying about their campaigns and the 2011 budget.

This would have been a good time to get the job done and indeed this was tried. They couldn't get the 60 needed to pass the senate in order to pass the 2011 budget and indeed no budget was passed we instead relies on continuing resolutions to fund the government at current levels which left no funds for the mission and no real time for some standalone effort. Fortunately we have 9 more years before this becomes a crisis.

2011-2018 Republicans controlled congress. In 2017,2018 Republicans controlled congress AND the presidency. In 2019 dems finally got congress back but couldn't do shit by virtue of Trump.

It's weird that you put this on the Dems when it is so so clearly a Republican fumble like the entire rest of the pandemic.

michaelmrose··on Why it's so difficult to produce American-made medical gloves
This is a congressional decision not a presidential obe and it was done after the dems lost the majority because of the incllination towards austerity that always develops when a dem is president. Would you like to go over exactly what republican votes led to this?
michaelmrose··on Why it's so difficult to produce American-made medical gloves
On the outside of the surface as well which is not fine. Goo would tend to irritate the skin stick in your pores and be challenging to quickly change when you contaminated one exterior which happens a lot
michaelmrose··on Why it's so difficult to produce American-made medical gloves
There are examples of species encountering such species decimating pathogens and we are in a worse position than 2020.

Any investment in such is likely to pay dividends in much less dramatic ordinary catastrophes which have occurred repeatedly and constantly.

It's probably a better investment than our military.

michaelmrose··on Late Bronze Age Collapse
Egypt left for its era more than ample records. None of them record a mass population of Canaanite slaves escaping or existing, much less the direct interaction between any Pharaoh and a figure like Moses. If it wasn't dear to religion there would be no question about Moses being as imaginary as Noah.
michaelmrose··on What's slowing down the AI buildout
It's more like 2M out of 37M for plug-in electric and plug-in hybrid, or roughly 5%.

https://afdc.energy.gov/vehicle-registration

CA has also invested heavily in charging with 18000 fast charging stations and still only convinced a tiny minority to go electric even with the government partially buying rich kids cars.

With decreasing subsidies, sales already fell off a cliff its way less than 1 in 3 new cars and 1 in 20 existing even in the electric car capital of the US.

We need more mass transit, more telecommuting, cheaper housing in cities, more electric cars, and more charging stations especially in apartments along with more cheap electric vehicles even if they end up being made in china. We want the same thing I am just not delusional enough to believe we've already arrived.

michaelmrose··on Why it's so difficult to produce American-made medical gloves
It actually can die but more accurately it can also become far less amenable to human thriving and kill off the majority of other species both of which appear to be happening
michaelmrose··on Why it's so difficult to produce American-made medical gloves
Why would this even be so. It's not magic it's just people doing stupid people things often to maximize short term factors. It only gets long-term planning insofar as embedded agents do. One of the things agents do is use incentives to inspire behaviour that is conta individuals short term incentives to achieve behaviour that contributes to long-term success.

Not only are many individual agents aligned with short term interests they often either can't because they will be pushed out by short term thinkers or literally benefit from net harm to all. America mostly being composed of the rich not the masses voting with their wallets.

michaelmrose··on Why it's so difficult to produce American-made medical gloves
Gloves are sterile wouldn't this tend to embed whatever is on the hands in the surface as it dries?
michaelmrose··on Why it's so difficult to produce American-made medical gloves
Republicans didn't see the need to be precise
michaelmrose··on Why it's so difficult to produce American-made medical gloves
The logical thing is that the government buys them continually at the higher price which justifies the existence of the factory with the requirement that it is made here and if this is not sufficient motivation you make buying something more buying something profitable contingent
michaelmrose··on Late Bronze Age Collapse
Moses and exodus are completely counterfactual and at once central to Jewish and Christian mythology and identity. Our foundational stories are mostly lies because reality is depressing.

Egypt exists even though the Exodus never happened. The mere existence of factual elements doesn't mean a foundational myth is real. Myths are normally interwoven with real elements.

Moses is almost entirely distinguished as a personage by elements we know are nonsense. If you found a Jewish leader named Moses who lived in a different year who experienced an entirely different history you wouldn't have found the real Moses so much insofar as the symbol Moses is a reference to the myth not the hypothetical actuality. Likewise finding an early leader wouldn't mean Remus was real

michaelmrose··on What's slowing down the AI buildout
Suburbia has sprawling lots where nobody is near a receptacle and cities have concrete pads which aren't wired save for lighting. In the minority of cases in which there are any outlets at all nearby any assigned parking spot they are locked to prevent homeless camping their charging their stuff.

When any spots exist the electrical system would never tolerate more than a few people plugging in at once.

For instance if you picked 3 50 unit complexes you would would find that 3 cars were situated to charge out of the 200 to 300 owned.

At present like 2% of cars owned not sold are electric to get to a much higher penetration that is desirable we need better charging.

You don't live in a statistically valid sample of homes our current attachment only works now because 49 out of 50 cars run on gas.

michaelmrose··on Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)
Skynet is real
michaelmrose··on What's slowing down the AI buildout
Most apartments especially in cities where most people live are unsuitable for charging of any kind
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